Update Florida’s aging infrastructure to build a cleaner, more resilient future
Three severe weather storms in three months highlights Florida’s need to update infrastructure now.
Three severe weather storms in three months highlights Florida’s need to update infrastructure now.
Different kinds of severe weather, including multiple kinds at once, have different impacts on the grid in different places.
Some states are landing on a straightforward answer: fossil fuel companies.
Early warning systems, resilient infrastructure and nature-based solutions are cost effective in reducing economic losses.
Increasingly destructive storms are putting our communities and economy at increasing risk of harm.
Older and poorer Floridians face higher-than-average risks from natural disasters and other environmental hazards.
As more Americans are impacted by disasters, it’s possible to make the system leaner, more efficient and accountable.
The risk of spills and mass disruption to delicate species and ecosystems will escalate if oil drilling commences.
Storms left the small Florida community facing an enormous reconstruction effort.
The new maps mean more Floridians will be required to buy flood insurance.
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